Simone de Beauvoir Quotes - Page 8

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• On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Cousin, Party, Clouds

  Simone de Beauvoir (2016). “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?

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  Sleep, Occupation, Charming

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Thinking, One Day

  "All Men are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, p. 28, 1946.

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• That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Suicide, Heart, Bars

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Death, Time, Destiny

  Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

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• If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.

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  Would Be, Our Love, Proud

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• The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.

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  Communication, Emotional, Two

  Sade (marquis de), Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “The Marquis de Sade: an essay by Simone de Beauvoir”

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• As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Long, Philosopher

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Helping Others, People, Humanity

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• If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Would Be, Ifs

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• The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through failure and outrageousness, to save his existence.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Confused, Real, Men

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Hair, Two

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• But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Feminist, Use

  Simone de Beauvoir (1963). “Nature of the second sex”

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• --There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sight, Heartbreaking, World

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• I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

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  Feminism, France

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• ‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Writing, Ashes, Taste

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• There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

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  Believe, Kind, Feminine

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• Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lying, Sleep, Dust

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• I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Thinking, Said, Understood

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• Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

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  Love Life, Thinking, Existential

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “A very easy death”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

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  Ideas, Want, Hierarchy

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• The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.

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  Mind, Way, Granted

  Simone de Beauvoir (1971). “The woman destroyed”

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• Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Finding Yourself, Nineteen

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les belles images”

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• Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Animal, Men, Talking

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les belles images”

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• Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

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  Daughter, Father, Expectations

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “The Woman Destroyed”, HarperCollins Publishers

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